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Violence on the streets of Chicago was the main course on Wednesday on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's menu. First, Emanuel attended a ceremony to retire the star of a fallen Chicago Police Officer, then he went to the funeral of a 13-year-old boy who was killed while playing basketball.
Police were questioning a teenager on Monday in the shooting death of a 6-year-old girl who was slain early Sunday as she slept at her grandmother's home in the Englewood neighborhood.
The murder trial of a Streamwood mother is slated to begin today in Kane County.
A DeKalb County judge will hold a hearing next month to determine whether two reporters should give prosecutors their notes on jailhouse interviews with a man charged in the 1957 kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old girl.
A Woodridge man is being held without bond for the alleged murder of an Aurora man last Thursday on the Northwest Side.
A man died after being shot in the chest early Sunday in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in the West Englewood neighborhood early Sunday morning.
His testimony as a 12-year-old helped convict a Humboldt Park man of murder, but now an Ohio man says he had the wrong suspect.
A convicted killer who would have been paroled in about 14 months has been charged in a rape and murder in DuPage County from 1976.
A man was shot and killed just after midnight Sunday in the South Side Hamilton Park neighborhood, police said.
A man was shot and killed in the South Shore neighborhood Saturday evening.
Six people are dead and at least 13 others were wounded – including a Chicago Police officer – in violent acts across the city over the weekend.
A 22-year-old man was behind bars on Sunday after allegedly shooting and killing two people on Friday and then engaging in a shootout with Chicago police officers who witnessed the murders.
Murder charges have been filed against a Des Plaines teen who allegedly shot and killed a 15-year-old boy and injured another 15-year-old boy July 22 on the Far North Side, police said.
Chicago police officers were involved in a shootout with at least one suspect who shot and killed two people in the Chatham neighborhood Friday afternoon.
The man charged with kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Maria Ridulph more than 50 years ago made his first appearance in an Illinois courtroom on Thursday, a day after he was extradited from Seattle.
Attorneys for the Lake Villa man, charged with the murder of a fast food restaurant manager, want an alleged admission of the crime thrown out.
An Addison man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his mother to death before hiring an escort and killing her when she found the knife used in his mother's murder.
A Cook County jury awarded $40 million to the family of Rhoni Reuter on Wednesday, in a lawsuit they filed against the woman convicted of killing Reuter and her unborn child in 2007.
Late Wednesday afternoon, the Seattle man accused of the 1957 kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old Sycamore girl was returned to Illinois to face the charges against him.
A suspect is due in court Wednesday, more than a year after the murder of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey.
Chicago Police say she committed suicide. Her family believes she was murdered. It's another questionable case from 2010, the year the police claimed its crime fighting techniques had dramatically reduced the city's murder rate.
A bullet recovered from a tire outside a murder scene led to charges against a 16-year-old gang member in the death of a Des Plaines man last week, police said.
A 24-year-old man has been charged in the murder of an off-duty Chicago cop who was shot and killed a year ago, about a month before he was set to retire.
A Wisconsin man has been charged in the 1991 stabbing death of a 16-year-old Chicago girl, after authorities linked his DNA to the crime.
